The Killer Is Dying. James Sallis. Walker, $23 (p) ISBN In this hallucinatory, almost visionary novel of suspense set in Phoenix, Sallis (Drive) focuses on three people of. · The Killer is Dying by James Sallis: This is that rare beast – a piece of literary crime fiction. It's not really a thriller. Hell, it's not really even crime fiction. To be honest, I'm not really sure how you can classify it. It doesn't contain a tightly honed plot – its structure is fairly. The Killer Is Dying, an unsatisfying bit of hard-boiled noir by James Sallis, is all atmosphere and no terra firma. The story of a hit man who has a terminal illness, it departs from the usual mystery by being written in a highly literary style, with multiple narrators and a lot of /5.
Shortlisted for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger Awards, best-selling author James Sallis is a master of the gritty crime drama. The Killer Is Dying tracks the fortunes of three men of vastly different ages, backgrounds, and ambitions. Though they never meet, a hired killer on his. James Sallis is the acclaimed author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the Lew Griffin series, Drive (made into the movie of the same name), Cypress Grove, Cripple Creek, and Salt www.doorway.ru biography of the great crime writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. The Killer is Dying ebook By James Sallis. Read a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts. Save Not today. Format. ebook. ISBN. Author. James Sallis.
The Killer is Dying by James Sallis: This is that rare beast – a piece of literary crime fiction. It's not really a thriller. Hell, it's not really even crime fiction. To be honest, I'm not really sure how you can classify it. It doesn't contain a tightly honed plot – its structure is fairly. The Killer Is Dying. James Sallis. Walker, $23 (p) ISBN In this hallucinatory, almost visionary novel of suspense set in Phoenix, Sallis (Drive) focuses on three people of. A hired killer on his final job, a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony, a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and sundered from society. In what is at one and the same time a coming-of-age novel, a realistic crime novel, and a novel of the contemporary Southwest, The Killer Is Dying is above all the story of three men of vastly different age and background, and of the shape their lives take against the unforgiving.
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